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Proyas doing Mignola material should be good. They have my attention.Comic-Con: Alex Proyas And Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola Team On Joe Golem And The Drowning City
By MIKE FLEMING
EXCLUSIVE: Constantin Film has acquired Joe Golem And The Drowning City, a graphic novel by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Alex Proyas is set to adapt and direct the live action feature, which will be shot in his native Australia. The book was published in March by St. Martins Press and is the second collaboration by Mignola and Golden, who also teamed on Baltimore.
The title is a supernatural-steampunk illustrated novel that follows an orphaned teenage girl, an aging magician, a lunatic scientist, a Victorian occult detective, and the stalwart sidekick, Joe Golema man whose strange dreams hint of a history he has forgottenas they struggle for the fate of an alternate 1970s lower Manhattan. In this vision, lower Manhattan sank into the water during a catastrophic earthquake in 1925, leaving those unwilling or unable to abandon it to make a new life in streets turned to canals.
The Gotham Groups Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Eric Robinson are producing with Mystery Clocks Proyas and Peter Donaldson. Mignola and Golden are exec producing. CAA reps Proyas.